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A Look at the Soviet Factory Manager
Delamotte, Yves
5/1  (Fall 1962): 25-32

This article focuses on the study conducted by French teams in Soviet Union through interview with state officials, union leaders and plant managers. The chief engineer is responsible too for the effective functioning of the plant because he is in charge of the technical equipment and its maintenance. He also has a long-term responsibility to envisage technical developments that will be necessary in the future and to prepare for them, in cooperation with the "Sovnarkhoze." The salaries of the directors vary according to the size of the plant. The director of a stocking factory in Moscow,1300 employees, told that he had a monthly salary of 190 roubles, one rouble is nominally worth one dollar. The range seems to be from 150 roubles for a small factory to 300 roubles for a very important one. Bonuses are added to the basic salary. As for all workers, they are given when the goals set by the plan have been achieved. The director gets a bonus only if these goals have been reached in all departments of his factory. However, it appears that such bonuses are more or less the rule. Their measure is a function of the production results and of the reduction of costs. They cannot exceed 40 percent of the salary; the average seems to lie between 20 and 30 percent. Even with bonuses, these salaries seem low by western standards. More meaningful than the international comparison, however, is the national comparison between the salaries of the directors and the wages of the workers.

 

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